Notre Dame at Rutgers

Tuesday, November 8, 1921

Notre Dame beat Rutgers 48–⁠0. It was their first meeting; after it, Notre Dame led the series 1–⁠0 as played.

AwayNotre Dame10–⁠1 in 1921
48
HomeRutgers4–⁠5 in 1921
0

FinalHigh 57°F, low 31°FAttendance 12,000

In the newspapers

  • The The Morning Tulsa daily world's story: .HO0SIERS SWAMP RUTGERS, 48 TO O Notre Dame Plays Rings Around Fasteners at Polo Grounds

    The Morning Tulsa daily world, Tulsa, Okla., November 9, 1921, page 9

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    .HO0SIERS SWAMP RUTGERS, 48 TO O Notre Dame Plays Rings Around Fasteners at Polo Grounds NEW YORK, Nov s.--Notre Damo today converted It’s football game with Rutgers into a track meet and, running circles around the eastern team. claimed q 48 to o victory. The Indiana eleven. which last Saturday truuuced the Army played an oven faster game on It’s second eastern appearance this season. When Foster Sanford’s pupils tried to match their forward passes against Knute Rockney’s tribe, they looked Ike primer class in arith’ metic matching wits against col lego class In mathematics. Rutgers had only one chance to score and mutfed that. II was In the second period. A long forward pass had brought the boil TO Notre Danes 25-ynrd line when another pass was battcd into the arms Of a Rutgers player on the 2-yard line. Then the Scarlet’s quarter elected to essay another forward pass, with the result that Notre Dame soon took up the offensive again. The game was marked by frequent FUN bles and penalties and display OF | hale and hearty tackling that sen, a number of players to the sidelines’ | A crowd OF more than fifty thou sand attended. | Score by periods | Notre Dame ..,. II 10 14–⁠4S | Rutgers ..... 0 0 o. u Starting In the first minute of | play. Nutre Dame began piling up | points and at the end OF the first period the tally stood II to o. Kastner and Wynne made touchdowns after 50-yard runs and Shaw kicked | the two goals Then WYnne kicked | a field goal. Roth teams used the | forward pass frequently. | Aerial football prevailed in the second period Kastnor kicked q | field goal fro mmidfield, making II / Gtu o for the westerners. 4 few minutes later. Mohardt got off one / OF his famous passes to Kiiey, VINO scored another touchdown for Notrt / Dame. shaw kicked goal. Sensa- / tional forward passes by Rutgers / which, however, failed TO score | ended the period. The third period started with some good line pluuging by Mohardi and Wynne. followed by series OF forward passes, one OF which, from Mohardt TO Captain Anderson brought another touchdown foi Nutre Dame. Shaw Kicked goal. a series OF long runs put the ball or Rutgers 5-yard line when the pc riod ended. Notre Dame started the fourti period by scoring another touch down by Kastner from the 5-yarC line. shaw kicked goal A spec tacular 40-yard run by Desch, sub sututing at righthalf paved the wa a few minutes later for touchdown by the same player. Shaw kicke’ goal

  • The The Birmingham age-herald's story: Notre Dame Runs Over Rutgers by Score of 48 to 0

    The Birmingham age-herald, Birmingham, Ala., November 9, 1921, page 1

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    Notre Dame Runs Over Rutgers by Score of 48 to 0 New York, November S.--Notre Dame today converted its football game with Rutgers into track meet and, running circles around the east ern team. claimed 4S to victory. The Indiana eleven. which last Sat urday trounced the army. played an even faster game on its second east ern appearance this season. When Foster Sanford’s pupils tried to match their forward passes against Knute Rockne’s tribe they looked like primardy class in arithmetic machine wits against college class in mathe- MATES. The Indiana back field was not aid ing and abetting in the manufacture of successful passes: 1t was running the hundred around end In 10 flat. 1t was one of the swiftesr sets of backs seen in the east this season. Just by way of variety, Wynne and Cashier, who each had made 50-yard runs for touchdowns. kicked a field goal apiece. Rutgers had only one chance to score and muffed that 1t was in the second period. A long forward pass had brought the ball to Notre Danes 25-yard line when another pass was batted into the arms of a Rutgers player on the 2-yard line. Then the scarlets quarter elected to essay an other forward with the result that Notre Dame soon took up the offense again. The game was marked by frequent 10. of hale and hearty talking that sent a number of players to the side lines. The lineup: Notre Dame (4S) Rutgers (0). Position Kiloy .................. Brennan Lett End Carney ................. smith Left Tackle H. Anderson ................ Teller Left Guard Larson ................. j. Scudder Center Dooley ................. D. Scudder Right Guard Shaw ................. -. RauD Right Tackle e. Anderson ............. Dickinson Right End Thomas ........... Maloney Quarterback Mohardt ................. Chandler Left Halfback Cashier Redmond Right Halfback Wynne ............ Waltle Fullback Score by periods; Notre Dame ........ II 10 7 14–⁠4S Rutgers ............ 0 0 O. Notre Dame Scoring-Touchdow Cashier 2, Wynne. Kiley, e. Anderson. Goal. Desch (sub. for Castner). Goals from touchdown. Shaw, Goals from field. Wynne, Cashier. Referee, Tufts. (Brown). Umpire. Eckersall. tChicago). Linesman. Maxwell (Swarthmore). Time Of periods, 10 minutes each.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

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Our ratings (scores only)

Notre Dame 83% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Notre Dame leads 4–⁠0; as played, 5–⁠0 in five meetings, counting the four since this game.

Recent meetings
2013Notre Dame 29, Rutgers 16Pinstripe Bowl
2002Notre Dame 42, Rutgers 0
2000Notre Dame 45, Rutgers 17
1996Notre Dame 62, Rutgers 0
1921Notre Dame 48, Rutgers 0

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